Redefine Custodian Experience With Increased Efficiency & Enhanced User Experience

By replacing legacy systems with our comprehensive cloud-enabled post trade settlement solution, custodians can reduce operational cost, increase Straight-Through-Processing (STP) rates, and provide an extensive user-experience for their clients while increasing operational efficiencies and focus on key business objectives. NOVA Custody provides functionality specific to brokers providing custodial services to trading (and non-trading) clients. This includes automatic position keeping and reporting, calculation of service fees according to flexible rules, periodic production of composite custody statements, automatic adjustments for Corporate Actions (e.g. dividends, bonus issues, and re-constructions).

Improve Client Experience

Enhance customer loyalty, trust, and satisfaction and grow market-share by offering access to data through modern digital channels, faster processing, greater visibility through an improved user interface.

Increase Business Profitability

Improve operational efficiencies with automated workflows, and straight-through processing (stp). Use real-time analytics to optimize operations and cloud-enabled solutions to scale accordingly.

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

Stay up-to-speed with global regulations on a platform that conforms to ISO standards and is regularly updated to ensure compliance with latest regulatory requirements across different geographies.

Features

Provides a real time view of all Stock Positions for clients who are defined as being custody clients including separation of Pending and Confirmed Holdings within segregated categories of custody client, firm’s principal and firm’s clearing. Positions are automatically adjusted for Stock Movements generated from various functional modules within the system such as Trade, Settlement, Custody, Corporate Action, Stock Lending and Margin Trading.

Provides a history of movements for subsequent enquiry by Instrument, client and firms; a summary of the global stock position by security; and real time list of Projected Stock Position by instrument and custodian for a user-defined period in the future.

NOVA provides Stock Transfer functions including Deposit, Withdrawal, Client Transfer, Custodian Transfer, Mass Withdrawal, and Stock Earmarking. These functions allow for the Stock Transaction to be ‘Immediate’ or ‘Pending’ based on customer’s requirement.

Allows a whole holding or a portion of a holding to be put on hold for a specific reason ie the stock has been pledged for collateral etc.

Benefits

Ad-Hoc Statement Generation

Optional manual holding adjustments

End-to-End STP to reduce manual workload

Calculation of service fees with flexible calculation rules

Real-time holding monitoring